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EAGLE HARBOR
HORACE GREELEY LANDED HERE ON JUNE 15 TH, 1847. HE CAME
ON THE INDEPENDENCE, THE FIRST PROPELLER BOAT ON LAKE SUP-
ERIOR. IT HAD A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 5 MILES PER HOUR. THAT
NIGHT, GREELEY REPORTED, THE HARBOR WAS FROZEN OVER FOR SOME
DISTANCE FROM SHORE. THERE WAS NO DOCK AND OXEN HE HAD -
BROUGHT FROM DETROIT WERE THROWN OVER BOARD TO SWIM ASHORE.
EAGLE HARBOR WAS FIRST SETTLED BY COPPER PROSPECTORS IN
1844 AND LATER BECAME HEADQUARTERS FOR MANY OF THE COPPER
MINES LOCATED ALONG THE RANGE OF HILLS TO THE SOUTH.
THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS RITUAL WAS WRITTEN HERE BY JUSTUS
H. RATHBONE DURING THE WINTER OF 1859-60. THE LITTLE SCHOOL
HOUSE IN WHICH HE TAUGHT IS PRESERVED AS A SHRINE BY THE
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
EAGLE HARBOR, MICH.
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